Why did the English, Dutch, and French fail to begin colonization of the Americas until more than a hundred years after the Spanish and Portuguese?
A) Their geographical position put them at a disadvantage for transatlantic shipping.
B) Domestic troubles and religious controversies delayed organized government action.
C) The northerners were slow to abandon their traditional trade routes through the Mediterranean.
D) A 1494 treaty ceded the Americas and a monopoly of the trade with the Far East to Portugal and Spain.
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